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		<title>Palm Sunday: A prophetic portrait of spiritual awakening</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Hawthorne, director of the prayer ministry Waymakers, offers interesting insights about the event we call Palm Sunday, which this year is celebrated on April 1. He notes that in the days leading up to the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem, Jesus had &#8220;instigated a movement of hope throughout the towns and villages of the entire [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=19273&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Timothy Tennent on Rob Bell&#8217;s domesticated gospel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following commentary is by Timothy C. Tennent, president of Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Ky., one of the top training institutions for United Methodist clergy (Asbury also has a Florida campus). Below, Dr. Tennent offers a critique of Rob Bell&#8217;s controversial book, Love Wins: Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=17279&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A word from Mr. Wesley: &#8216;The way to the kingdom&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third in our monthly series that presents excerpts from the writings of John Wesley, co-founder (with his brother Charles) of the Methodist movement. The following is from John Wesley’s sermon, “The Way to the Kingdom.” The wording has been slightly updated from the original, based on the adaptation found in Renew My [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=16799&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A word from Mr. Wesley: &#8216;The first doctrine&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2011/02/02/word-from-mr-wesley-the-first-doctrine/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second installment of a monthly MethodistThinker feature for 2011 that  presents excerpts from the writings of John Wesley, co-founder of the Methodist movement. Because the use of language changes with the passage of time, the wording in these excerpts has been slightly updated, based on the adaptation found in Renew My Heart [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=16701&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adam Hamilton: How the UMC can have &#8216;a future with hope&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2010/10/11/adam-hamilton-umc-can-have-a-future-with-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To reverse the United Methodist Church&#8217;s decades-long membership decline in the United States, local UM churches must embrace innovation and commit themselves to constant improvement, according to Adam Hamilton, leader of one of the UMC&#8217;s largest and most successful churches. Hamilton, founder and senior pastor of  the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection (COR) in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=14875&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast—Maxie Dunnam: &#8216;Pastor as Prophet, Priest, Evangelist&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2010/06/08/podcast-maxie-dunnam-the-pastor-as-prophet-priest-evangelist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final podcast of our spring season features one of the most prominent United Methodist leaders of recent decades: Dr. Maxie Dunnam. Maxie Dunnam was born in Mississippi in 1934. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern Mississippi (1955), he went on to earn a Master of Theology from Atlanta&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=12385&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The top ten MethodistThinker posts of 2009</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/12/28/the-top-ten-methodistthinker-posts-of-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following are our ten most-viewed posts of 2009 (the date of each post date is in parentheses): Adam Hamilton: ‘We are in desperate need of excellent preaching’ (Oct. 12) In Mississippi Conference, testimony from lesbian couple stirs controversy (June 29) Ed Tomlinson: Proposed amendments would ‘decimate connectionalism’ (March 26) Proposed amendments would separate UMC [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=10070&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: Bishop James King on &#8216;Preaching Authority&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/11/17/podcast-bishop-james-king-on-preaching-authority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest MethodistThinker Podcast features a sermon by Bishop James King, episcopal leader of the United Methodist Church&#8217;s South Georgia Conference. Before being elected to the episcopacy in 2000, James R. King, Jr. served as a pastor in Alabama, California, and Tennessee, and as a District Superintendent in the Tennessee Conference. Prior to being assigned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=9589&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adam Hamilton: &#8216;We are in desperate need of excellent preaching&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/10/12/adam-hamilton-desperate-need-of-excellent-preaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the 11th annual Leadership Institute, held last week at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, host pastor Adam Hamilton urged pastors and lay preachers to focus on improving the quality of their preaching. &#8220;We are in desperate need today of excellent preaching,&#8221; he said during the conference&#8217;s Oct. 9 morning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=8802&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: Bill Hinson on &#8216;The Making of a Minister&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/08/17/podcast-bill-hinson-on-the-making-of-a-minister/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While production continues on the upcoming fall season of The MethodistThinker Podcast, we’re highlighting several podcasts from our spring season. This week, a sermon by the late Dr. Bill Hinson, long-time pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Houston, Texas. During his 18-year tenure at First UMC-Houston, more than 3,000 people joined that congregation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=8063&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: John Wesley on &#8216;The New Birth&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/08/10/podcast-john-wesley-on-the-new-birth-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the next several weeks, while production continues on the upcoming fall season of The MethodistThinker Podcast, we&#8217;re highlighting several podcasts from our spring season, beginning with our debut program below. We could think of no better person to feature on our premiere program than the founder of the Methodist movement: Anglican clergyman John Wesley. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=8035&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: Dr. Bill Hinson on &#8216;The Making of a Minister</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s MethodistThinker Podcast features a sermon by the late Dr. Bill Hinson, long-time pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Houston, Texas. During his 18-year tenure at First UMC-Houston, more than 3,000 people joined that congregation on profession of faith. In 1985, Dr. Hinson was honored with Denman Evangelism Award. In 2000, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=9930&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: Bill Bouknight on &#8216;The Resurrection of Jesus Christ&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/04/06/podcast-bill-bouknight-on-the-resurrection-of-jesus-christ/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted below is this week&#8217;s MethodistThinker Podcast, featuring an Easter sermon by Dr. Bill Bouknight. Dr. Bouknight retired in 2007 after serving 41 years as a Methodist pastor, first in South Carolina and later in Tennessee. He is the author of The Authoritative Word: Preaching Truth in a Skeptical Age (Abingdon, 2001) and If Disciples [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=5290&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: John Wesley on &#8216;The New Birth&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/03/30/podcast-john-wesley-on-the-new-birth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted below is the debut edition of The MethodistThinker Podcast, featuring timeless teaching by Methodist pastors and leaders. This week, a sermon by the founder of the movement: Anglican clergyman John Wesley! Click the audio player below for details — or download an mp3. (The podcast is 11-and-a-half minutes.) ∞ Next week, a sermon by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=5059&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming soon: The MethodistThinker Podcast</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/03/23/methodist-thinker-podcast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent post by Southern Baptist blogger Trevin Wax has stirred my thinking about how bishops and other UM leaders can more effectively sow into the lives of younger pastors and leaders. I continue to see articles and hear comments about the loss of young pastors from the ranks of the [Southern Baptist Convention]&#8230;. To [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=4895&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Billy Abraham on United Methodism: &#8216;There is no common faith among us&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/01/29/dr-billy-abraham-no-common-faith-among-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking earlier this month at the United Methodist Congress on Evangelism, Dr. William J. (Billy) Abraham said the seeds of United Methodism&#8217;s 40-year decline were sown inadvertently by one of the &#8220;founding fathers&#8221; of the denomination, the late Albert C. Outler. (Outler chaired the Theological Study Commission appointed  by the General Conference when the United [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=3738&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For the pastor on your Christmas gift list</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for just the right gift for a preacher? I suggest Warren Lathem and Dan Dunn&#8217;s book, Preaching for a Response: Leading New Believers into Spiritual Maturity, released earlier this year by Bristol House. The authors (Lathem has served as a pastor, district superintendent, and seminary president; Dunn has been a pastor, associate pastor, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=3046&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Astonishing preaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a commencement address today at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., seminary president Albert Mohler quoted at length from an influential 1971 book by Fred Craddock (then at Phillips University, later a professor of preaching at Emory University&#8217;s Candler School of Theology). That book, As One Without Authority, launched something of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=2986&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preaching for a response</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2008/08/08/preaching-for-a-response/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former North Georgia pastor and district superintendent Warren Lathem is the co-author with Dan Dunn of a new book titled, Preaching for a Response: Leading New Believers into Spiritual Maturity (Bristol House). A good friend of mine, writer Beverly Varnado, has this to say about it: I know first hand the effects of Dr. Lathem&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=172&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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